SOVIET AGRICULTURAL AID TO COMMUNIST CHINA

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952 51-011
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CENTRAL INTELL I GEV IIN%AGENCY
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INFO MATION REPORT
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COUNTRY China./USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Agricultural Aid to Commuist ..~
China
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is Soviet agricultural aid to Communist China has been small. Some time ago the
USSR presented to the Chinese Cor;!munists as gifts certain agricultural machin-
ery and seed, with which the Chinese Communists were to conduct experiments.
Additional machinery or seeds were to be negotiated for, when desired, through
some manner of barter arrangement. Iowever, the Chinese Communists are
attempting to manufacture their own agricultural ir,ipple.nentu.
2. The followin, typos of Soviet-made agricultural machinery have been made
v J'= tra.ctoro1, one type with j`(
a. A-erh-tzu-lien-tai-shin ('J )
horsepower and another with 10 horsepower.
b. Five KKW35 wu-t 9 i ( ~) plows, each capable of plowi r1 126 shih raou2
to a depth of 0.15 ship ch7ih3 in ten hourso
c. 14rP?c0.25 maize threshing machi.nes4, each capable of threshing ")00
per hour with manual operation and 16,000 shih chin per by 0l
power.
d. G1' -5 powder sprayers6 which can spray 12 shih mou per hour.
e. OPT oval shaped atomizers and OP-3 hand-operated bellows-type dust sprayers.
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f. Wheat harvesting machiney . ~, .) type,'!., with 2 to 3 harsepoTl~ r
capable of harvesting 8.2 shih mou per hour.
Sowing machines, each with 10 circular disks and capable of sowing 8.7 shin
mou per hour.
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3. The USSR has given Communist China the following types of seeds:
a. Ukraine 0246 winter wheate.8
Lo-fua-?ssu-chi ( .~ )9 cotton seeds.10
co C-3173 cotton seeds.ll
d. Seeds for rubber producing plants:12
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(1) Taraxacum kok-?sag.iz rod (Ch'ing hsiang is l ao AL
(2) Scorzonera tau-sagiz (Shan hsiang ts'ao
(3) P_arthenium a.rgentatum (Yin hsiang chid ,~")
1. Comment. Possibly Altai (Tractor Factory) chain-belt drive
tractors.
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Coarnnent. 1 shih mou = 0.1647 acres.
Comment. 1 shih ch'ih m 0.3 meters 0 1.0936 ft.
omment. Possibly corn shuckers.
jComment. 1 shin chin = 0.5 kilograms ? 1.1023 lbs.
Comment. Possibly dust sprayers.
Comment. Possibly oscillating arm type.
?30 Comment. Experimentation with this seed gave a maximum. yield of
250 ship chin per sluh mou. The maximum yield for Northwest white winter
is 190 shih chin per shih mao.
wheat (pai tung mai j 4-T-
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Comment.
Possibly Lvovski or Lovski.
10. I IComment. Experimentation has shoini that this seed produces short
fibers and that the plant has strong resistance against wind.
1l Coiament. Experime~ tation has shown that these cotton fibers are
long and E I i a.rd that the young plants are week and can .ot resist rind.
12 . I I;o1,nierat Experimentation shows that these three plants are suitable
for growth in Sinkiang, Tsinghai, Ninghsia, Shensi and hansu provinces. The
rubber content of (1) has been determined to be 7.4 - 7.9 (sic); the rubber
content of the others has not been determined.
omment. These figures probably refer to between 7.y. and 7.9 a
o nc ru Der hydrocarbon content of kok-sagiz, based on the dry weight of
the root.
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